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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4531605, member: 66&quot;][MEDIA=youtube]uu96STA5BDA[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>You might want to check out the 1987 documentary Radium City.&nbsp; The entire film is available online. unfortunately no longer for free.&nbsp; It deals with a group of young women in their teens and early twenties working at Radium Dial, and another company.&nbsp; Their job was to use radium paint to paint the numerals of clock dials and watch faces.&nbsp; They were trained to paint the numbers by twirling the brush between their lips, dip it in the paint, paint the number, then put it back between her lips to twirl it again.&nbsp; And they would do that all day long, lip, dip, paint, lip, dip, paint. Naturally they would be consuming a quantity of radium paint every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting book on the subject is The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America&#039;s Shining Women by Kate Moore[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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